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Green Gown (A).
A tousel in the new-mown hay. To “give one a green gown” sometimes means to go beyond the bounds of innocent playfulness.
“Had any dared to give her [Narcissa] a green gown,
The fair had petrifled him with a frown… .
Pure as the snow was she, and cold as ice.”
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.